*parvenir à*, to attain, reach, succeed. *parvenu; parviennent, parvînmes, parvint*, see *parvenir*. *pas*, _m._, step, pace. _à ---- comptés_, very slowly; _à ---- lents_, slowly; _--de course_, quick-step. *pas*, _adv._, no, not, not any. *passablement*, tolerably. *passant*, _m._, passer-by. *passavant*, _m._, gangway. *passé*, past. _la semaine ----e_, last week. *passer*, to pass, pass along, or through, be considered. _en passant_, as (I) passed by; _---- à la revue devant_, to pass in review before. _se ----_, to pass, pass by, happen, to be going on. _il se passa dix minutes_, ten minutes elapsed. *patrie*, _f._, home. *patte*, _f._, leg (of an animal). *pauvre*, poor, wretched. *paver*, to pave. *payer*, to pay for. *pays*, _m_., country, native place. *paysage*, _m_., landscape. *paysan*, *-ne*, peasant, country-woman. *peau*, _f_., skin. *peccadille*, _f_., peccadillo, slight offence. *peine*, _f_., trouble, difficulty. _à ----_, hardly, scarcely; _être en ----_, to be uneasy; _donner de la ----_, to cause trouble, be troublesome; _se donner la ---- de_, to take the trouble to, be so kind as to; _faire de la ---- à_, to pain; _j'eus ---- à retenir un cri_, I could scarcely refrain from crying out. *peiner*, to pain, trouble. *pencher*, to bend. *pendant*, during, for. _---- que_, while. *pendre*, to hang, suspend. *pénible*, painful, difficult. *péniblement*, painfully. *pensée*, _f_., thought, idea. *penser*, to think. *percer*, to pierce, pierce through. *perdre*, to lose. *perdu*, lost, ruined. *père*, _m_., father. *perfide*, _m_., traitor. *permettre*, to allow, permit. *perron*, _m_., flight of steps before a house, stoop, verandah. *Perse*, _f_., Persia. *personne*, (_with 'ne' before verb_) nobody, (not) anybody. *persuader*, convince. *peser*, to bear upon, lie. *petit*, _adj_., little, small, _---- à ----_, little by little, by degrees; _--- maître_, dandy, _n. m._ young, kitten. *peu*, _adv_., little, few. _dans ----_, shortly; _depuis ----_, lately; _quelque ----_, somewhat, a little; _---- à ----_, gradually, little by little; _un ----_, somewhat, for a short time, a bit. _n. m._, few. _le ---- de matelots_, the few sailors. *peur*, _f_., fear. _avoir ----_, to be afraid; _de ---- de_, for fear of; _faire ---- à_, to frighten. *peut-être*, perhaps. *peut*, *peuvent*, see *pouvoir*. *pharaon*, _m_., faro. *piaffer*, to paw (the ground). *pièce*, _f_., piece, apartment, cannon. _mettre en ----s_, to tear, break, to pieces. *pied*, _m_., foot, _à quelques ----s de nous_, a few feet away; _cinq ----s de haut_, five feet tall; _sortir à ----_, to go out on foot; _se lever en ----_, to rise. *pierre*, _f_., stone. _---- à feu_, flint. *piquant*, sharp, biting, cutting, keen. *pire*, _adj_., worse.